Nigel Farage has decided to abandon attempts to shed his far-right image and decided instead to move even further to the right, echoing the language of the racist BNP during a ‘national address’, in a naked attempt to exploit a horrific murder in order to whip up hatred and division.
Just when many of you thought Farage couldn’t sink any lower, he has done so. Following the horrific murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, Farage has been widely condemned for exploiting the murder to create ‘grievance and division’.
Fearing being outflanked by the likes of Rupert Lowe and Restore, Farage chose to go full-throttle far-right himself, dismissing the concerns of Henry’s family who specifically said they did not want his murder to be used to “create further hatred, division or tension.” That he has done so, shows in the words of Keir Starmer, ‘exactly who he is’.
Henry was brutally murdered last year in a terrible attack. But newly released footage of how the police reacted at the scene have caused shockwaves across the UK, leading to Henry's family speaking out.
In stark contrast, Nigel Farage - leader of the Reform UK Party - has said we should react to Henry Nowak’s appalling murder with ‘pure cold rage’and proclaiming 'white lives matter'in response to the murder and its surrounding circumstances.
And with 11 officers and a police dog injured at protests last night, politicians need to remember what they say actually matters.The violence that broke out in Southampton yesterday is a stark reminder of the real-world consequences when fear and division are deliberately stoked.
We saw it after Southport. We saw where it led. Violence followed. Communities were targeted. Fear spread. And now we are seeing the same forces attempting to use Henry’s death to tell a story about white victimhood and racial conflict.
Yet Farage says that last night's terrifying violent disorder in Southampton is 'just the beginning' He tells us that 'the division will get far worse because 'large numbers of young white males think the police are prejudiced against them 'The division will get far worse. What you saw in Southampton last night is the beginning 'If we get large numbers of young white males who think the police are prejudiced against them, goodness knows where we go. This has to end'"
Over the last 36 hours, we have witnessed the very soul of Nigel Farage, his essence. It has been over a month since he went into hiding, since serious questions began to be raised over his undeclared £5M donation.
A month since he appeared in front of TV cameras or underwent any questioning at all. At 8am yesterday morning, Farage released a video, from a field somewhere, calling for rage. Calling for an end to the mythical two-tier policing.
Make no mistake, those were very carefully chosen words — he understood what he was unleashing, and his wish was granted last night in Southampton.
On Tuesday, the Home Secretary made a statement to the House regarding the murder of Henry Nowack. There was, as always, an opportunity to question Shabana Mahmood. Was Nigel Farage in attendance? No, of course not.
Today, Farage was granted a question at PMQs, the showpiece spectacle of the political week in which the country's news and politics fanatics tune in to watch. Was Nigel Farage in attendance? Yes, of course he bloody was. He had somehow found his way into work after missing 77 separate votes in Parliament because he would, at least for three minutes, be the centre of the country's political attention.
His question was about the murder of Henry Nowack and the violence that erupted on his command last night, but he would not condemn it or call for calm. Instead, he 'suggested' that this rioting might escalate.
The overwhelming majority of people find Farage's words abhorrent. He has stoked division and incited violence to gain political points against the wishes of Henry Nowak's family. He has badly misjudged the mood of the country and will lose a lot of support over this. and is now fully aligned in people's minds alongside Tommy Robinson and the rest of the far right who were there in Southampton.
This afternoon, he has performatively written to the BBC because someone on Newsnight dared to accuse him of inciting the violence. playing his perpetual victim card. Again.
And there we see the soul of Nigel Farage a craven, hate filled, narcissistic. grubby little opportunist of the lowest order, desperate for attention, an evil, petty and pointless pure scum of a man.
Farage is a Grifter not a politician who has made an entire career about hating people, about division, about “them” being bad for “us” and the exploitation of the under educated . He is doing it again, against the wishes of a father of a murdered son, because that is all he has and all he is. Hate. Rage. Culture war.
His language is very dangerous in these times,He doesn’t want to improve this nation he wants to divide it, he wants to profit from it and laugh in the faces of all those daft enough to believe in him. and it is more than time to hold Farage to account.
The violent clashes with police in Southampton are the clearest warning of where Nigel Farage’s politics of hate leads. Officers were injured, communities were frightened, and public anger was pushed into the streets. This followed the tragic killing of Henry Nowak and the grave police mistake of handcuffing him as he lay dying: a case that demands truth, justice and accountability.
But Farage chose not to calm tensions. He chose to exploit grief, turn it into racial anger and use a tragedy as a political weapon. The UK deserves justice, not hatred.
Whatever terrible failures occurred in Henry’s case, and however serious they may prove to be, the attempt to turn this tragedy into evidence that white people are now the primary victims of racial prejudice turns reality on its head.
The reality is that racial inequality has not disappeared from Britain. For people from ethnic minority backgrounds being treated with suspicion remains an ordinary part of life. According to the latest Home Office figures, for example, Black people are stopped and searched by police at nearly four times the rate of white people. For searches linked to suspected weapons, the disparity is even higher. Racial abuse remains commonplace. Discrimination in housing, employment and public life remains.
Yet the far right wants to persuade people that anti-racism itself is now the real injustice.
Make no mistake, Reform are pushing us down a very dark and dangerous place.The contrast between Nigel Farage's opportunistic hate to divide people, his inability to serve anyone but himself, and the Sikhs' selfless service could not be more stark.
Farage is an absolute disgrace of a human being. Would love to see him deported for this sort of baiting of violence. Never thought a human being could be so morally inept to bring the tragic death of a boy into politics like this to create such division.Farages "pure cold rage" means violent racists giving Nazi salutes. Farage and Reform are a danger to the whole UK. Shame on them.
Am not a huge admirer but have to give credit to Keir Starmer for the way he handled Farage in PMQs today, "This is a time for serious work, not rage," Keir Starmer told MPs, “Henry Nowak’s family have shown extraordinary dignity after their son’s life. There are serious questions to answer - like how accusations of racism impacted police thinking. But there is no justification for violence," he said.
The terrified people of Southampton did not want a gang of racist thugs carrying out mayhem on their streets with the support of Reform MPs who seem to think being racist is a vote winner.
Farage should be arrested and removed from Parliament, his racist dreadful views may attract support but I am sure the majority would hate to see a repeat of what happened in Southampton on their doorstep. There was nothing to be gained.
Farage and Reform have made themselves look foolish and insensitive. All because they’ve done what the family of Henry Nowak asked Parliamentarians not to do.
It is up to each of us to stop this hatred and stop reform from defining our country. There is another way. The politics of division depends on people feeling frightened, isolated and resentful. It depends on us seeing one another as enemies.
At a time when the politics of extremist hatred becomes louder in a bid to fuel division and hatred, it must be opposed more than ever. Enough of Reform UK and Farage's sowing of malcontent and hate and division and the blatants opportunism over the tragic murder of a young man.
Sign the open letter to demand Nigel Farage - as leader of the Reform UK Party - stops this shameful behaviour?
